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In 1980, three Members of the United States House of Representatives went on a golfing jaunt to Florida. Joining them was Paula Parkinson, a blonde lobbyist in her twenties who later hinted strongly in print that her lobbying techniques could be unusually tactile. Based on a National Public Radio report http://www. ...
That golfing-trip scandal ended the congressional career of Delaware Republican Thomas Evans Jr., although he rebuilt his life to become a successful -- and certainly more conventional -- lobbyist. Other lawmakers on the trip, including future Vice-President Dan Quayle, all escaped with minor injuries to their reputations. Ms. Parkinson posed nude for Playboy magazine and later left Washington, D.C. James Danforth Quayle III (born February 4, 1947) was the 44th Vice President of the United States under George H. W. Bush (1989-1993). ...
"SIR SAMUEL THOMASEVANS (1859-1918), British judge, was born at Skewen, near Neath, May 4 1859.
He was educated at the local school and at London University, being afterwards admitted as a solicitor (1883).
On the outbreak of the World War the Prize court was reestablished, and the work here done as president by Sir Samuel Evans was of the highest value, many of his judgments laying down principles of great importance.
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